Weezer and the Pixies are joining forces for a joint 2018 concert tour that will open on June 23 in Tampa and conclude Aug. 12 in Phoenix. The Wombats will open the first leg of the tour.

The itinerary includes an Aug. 11 stop at Mattress Firm Amphitheatre in Chula Vista.

The two guitar-driven alternative-rock bands bands have performed together before. But this will apparently be the first time Weezer, which was formed in 1992, and the Pixies, which was formed in 1986, have teamed up for a tour.

Pixies.

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“We’re all big Weezer fans,” Pixies leader Black Francis said in a statement released Thursday morning. “So we’re really looking forward to this summer. We have a lot of respect for Weezer, they’re not afraid to take risks with their music.”

Weezer’s most recent San Diego performance was Sept. 15 at the KAABOO Del Mar festival. The Pixies’ most recent San Diego performance was April 22 at the Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre at SDSU.

Tickets for the Weezer/Pixies tour go on sale Nov. 10 at 10 a.m. local time to the general public, preceded by an array of pre-sales

Tickets for the Aug. 11 San Diego show are priced from $25 to $89.50 each, plus service charges, and will be available at ticketmaster.com and by phone at (800) 745-3000..

Veteran San Diego Union-Tribune pop music critic George Varga began drumming in rock bands at 12 and writing professionally about music at 15. A Louisiana native who grew up mostly in Germany, Varga has earned three Pulitzer Prize nominations for his writing at the U-T and is a voting member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In addition to providing live coverage of the Grammy Awards and festivals from Coachella and KAABOO to the 1994 edition of Woodstock, he has interviewed everyone from Ray Charles, Miles Davis and Britney Spears to Willie Nelson, Kanye West and Bruno Mars. A double first-prize winner at the 2018 Society of Professional Journalists awards, Varga is also a contributing writer for Jazz Times magazine and has written for Billboard, Spin and other publications. After attending San Diego City College and San Diego State University, he created and taught the 2002 UC San Diego Extension course, “Jazz in a Post-Ken-Burns World.” Varga lives with his wife in North Park.